101: Journey of a Braid. Folk Women Weaving from PrePatriarchy to Now. Eurydice Eve with Danié Gómez

Speak with Eve Eurydice

Eve Eurydice speaks with Danié Gómez Ortigoza, a Mexican-American model and multi-media artist who practices braiding with intention. We discuss revisiting our relationship with our bodies and revaluing our natural bodies rather than leaving them behind and supplanting them with avatars. Danié sees our hair as a connection to our soul; as our body’s antennas or whiskers; in the manner of native peoples who are more attuned to nature. She uses braiding circles to create Portals of human connection and chakra protection and to set the mental frame for the day. When we give ourselves away without ego, we receive. We also discuss mothering. Motherhood is the work of not breaking continuity. Legally mother still belongs to patriarchy, bears the man’s name, lives in the man’s house, for the system of families has gone on after the Patriarchy, when the man was inserted in the center like the rooster and the family worked around him. Families existed before patriarchy and the dynamics between mothers and children have stayed constant despite the cultural interventions. Daily rituals centered mothers and children for millennia to earth herbs feminine time the cycles of nature and have survived the cultural war in various adaptations. The Knowledge in ancient native rituals is important for our survival especially if we end up having to become climate nomads. The metaverse will be extinct then. ⚡️For Danié, braiding is a portal into the soul and the main subject of her exploration of rituals and ancestry. Her project ‘Back to nature’ is a call for union and understanding the importance of reconnecting to Earth; in ‘Braiding Ceremony,’ she explores the act of braiding women into one hand-sewn fabric that brings all the braids together as one. Danié has worked as a television host for Disney, an advertising Copywriter and Digital Strategist in Mexico and Canada, Marketing Director for a media publication in Sweden, and correspondent for Glamour Mexico and Latin America in Miami, where she received a Fashion Group International Award. Danié sees community as the structure to re-engineer the world, and co-created ‘The Bazaar for Good,’ a philanthropic venture that uses fashion to raise funds for projects with social impact. For more on Danié, go to www.journeyofabraid.com ⚡️ For more, go to https://Speaksexpodcast.com ⚡️ For books, art, merch by Eurydice, go to https://Eurydice.net ⚡️ For Apple podcast, subscribe to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-sex-with-eve/id1448261953 ⚡️For video episodes, subscribe to https://YouTube.com/SpeakSexwithEveEurydice ⚡️ #speaksex #eveEurydice #Eurydice #Eurudice #journeyofabraid